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T A F T . Oct. 8——Pound
lying unconscious In an
alley
here
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after-
neen with a pointer dog
which he haa cared for
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for three yearn* faithfully
guarding him. - le e SuV
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Vining to Appear at Railroad
Hearing in
Portland
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Hvan, employed by Sam 6
Ovloff, aa a Janitor, fa ll- Z0
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II hospital and died early 0
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to h B*at distance telephoto mee-
page, raooieod hy A. C. Joy, «rom
thg Jfllr. gnonnda at .Salem Ute
yesterday Afternoon.
Dorothy Stevens and Awfcnda
■Bateman, composing the w h ile
bread b ak ia g team , took first
place In a bread baking demon­
stration, while the flre t three
places tor the prune bread bak-
ing exhibits w ent to Ashland
girls.
Adena • Joy
took
« ra t
p lace, E llen Oaley. second plhee
and Elisabeth Joy th ird place. In
th is com p etitio n .
Adana Joy
also scored
a
firs t place In th e cunning os-
h ib lt, coming through w ith a
perfect recofR tn a contest, In
Which seventy-Ove Jars of fruits,
vegetables and meats,
which
have been canned, hy the girls
a t home, were opened and close­
ly examined hy several experts.
A number of th e contestants.- the
message la id , wars disqualified
b t ir a u s s o f uncooked or spoiled
8alftven was about 7#
years old and had resid­
ed here for 17 years, be­
ing fa m ilia rly t known as
'D a d ."
He has no rela­
tives here and the where­
abouts of hie relatives in
the Bait la unknown The
body Is a t the T a ft Un-
dertaking- parlors.
Last jrenr, two Arshland* girls.
Rosins and Prances Onllatin,
took « ra t place In the prune
bread baking contest.
The la t­
te r finished flre t fn the com­
petition a t the Portland -Live­
stock skow, and la te r were sept
to Chicago, where they put on
a
non-competitive
demonetra-
The yon ng people a t the fa ir
roport a wonderful tim e.
They
a re pleased w ith the new club
b e fld ia g , and the entertainment
they received from the fa ir man
Irrigation Congress
is to Look Over
Emigrant Dam -
The Irrig a tio n Congress, to he
held In Grants Pane next week
w ill receive the attention of a
num ber of local people, «ad
w h ile the chamber of commerce
la appointing a committee to
represent It, ns many as can are
urged to attend the sessions. O.
H. Johnson. J. W . McCoy, A . C.
Joy, Q. W . Dnnn, L. H. Gallatin
and Ralph Billings have beerf
P inal arrangements fo r open­
ing th e Ashland W eek-D ay Bible
School to the Methodiet church
a t one « ‘clock on Monday have
beta
made.
Suitable
table«,
chairs and black hoards have
been Installed, Bibles w ill be pro­
vided fo r elaas room work.
Reports from Superintendent
Brisco’s office Indicate th a t ap­
proxim ately fifty per cent of the
school.
T he parents are ahow-
t a g 'u splendid Interest Indicat­
ing th a t when th e school opens
Mdndcy n t one o’clock fo r thg
tk lrd , tp o o’clock for the fourth
and t'lree o ’clock fo r' th e fifth
. gvnde^ papMe. the percentage of
pupils enrolled w ill be largely
inereaied.
‘A g a ln w e state that
nil children of the grades men­
tioned w ill be welcomed Into
the * rhool regardless e f either
th e ir
p a ren ts
or
th e ir
own
ehund' o r Sunday school relation­
ship},*.* said Rev. J. C. Mergler.
" A i r Will ha weloomd
The
Bible w ill be the text book used.’’
be co itinned.
M n . Grace B. Andrews, the
teach« r fo r the school, and Rev.
J. C. M ergler, pastor or the
PreSb terian church spent sev­
e r a l,; ays In P o rtla n d the past
Wdci^ InvekttgnUag the work ef
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W ith M ary Oaley heading , the
sewing chib girls, and with the
canning end cooking teams win­
ning firs t places. d a b leaders,
parents and those Interested In
th e d u b work are greatly pleased
work demonstrations.
M y era am i «arbora ('ornai X tee p f
Congrem to Meet la C all* „
forala Cbg O c t. 741
terday to United States Marshall
Hotchkls and was released on *800
ball posted by M ilton A. M ille r
and D r. A. W . M arrow .
A rth u r Chrislebaen, fo n der fed­
eral prohibition agent, and said to
hgve been acting as special agent
tn A s to ria -w a s Indicted on the
same charges ag theye facing the
Smith brothers. An additional
charge of transportation b i liquor
was lodged against Christenson.
Christenson was already under a r­
rest on hnother charge and waa
out on » *« 0 ball. H la bail was In­
creased to *3 0 0 0 under the new
chargee.
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There are four counts in the in­
dictments returned against the
S m itty and'Chrtstepaen, form ally
charging them w ith demanding
money to keep from- M aking ar-
th e '» *hools In operation there.
** Sck m la were visited in the
F lra t 'Congregational, the E p ­
w orth Methodist and th e West-
micst. r Presbyterian churches.
P u t lie and teaekera were bi-
terestod In the w ork.
The
course of study used is the
same as w ill ge used in our
school.
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Mrs. Andrews and Mr. Merg­
ler had a conference w ith the
Acting Superintendent o f the
Portland schools, Mr. Rice.
He
and bis co-laborers are actively
supporting the W eek-D ay Bible
schools in the city.
Enrollm ent
fo r the Bible schools on the
.West
Side
have
m ore
than
doubl d over the enrollm ent of
last year.
Mr Rice spoke very
highly of the work of Sapm-ie-
tendent Briscoe in the Ashmad
schcola and wished every sac-
cess for the Bible school project
here, offering pay assistance hla
office could render to th a t end.
The parents of the pupils In
the grades indicated, • the third,
fourth and fifth , are advised
that the Bible school w ill open
'.fo r p ipils from the Junior High
school in the Methodist church
’ on Monday and Tuesday, from
'one <3 four o’clock, and for pu-
i pile I rom the H aw thorne school
In the Congregational church
from one to four on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
Th > teacher w ill in every ease
appointed ■ hy P re s id e n t' O. A.
meet the ’ class a t the school
Briscoe ns a special Committee
SACRAM ENTO . Oct. 3— -S ta te building, conduct them *to the
to attend the congress.
Controller Ray L. R iley returned church for the Bible study hour
The second day of the con­ to Sacramento la s t week from
and return with them to the
gress w ill be taken up jvith a an automobile trip through Sis-
school building at the close of
caravan, m aking a to u r over Jkiyou, Hum boldt, D el N orte and
the hour, thus Insuring th eir
some of the Irrigated district. other northern counties wold ’ on
safety and m aintaining • strict
I t w ill then proceed up the Ap­ the Idea th at those sections are
discipline at a ll times.
plegate, through Ruch to Jack­ entitled to mbre improved; high­
sonville,' where It w ill be met ways.
by a . delegation from Talent,
R iley Is of the oplaion ’ that
a t which place lunch w ill be these counties would get far
served, a fte r which the caravan better results In .th e ir desire
w ill view th e Em igrant Creek fo r highway cohstruction If the
dam and the Talent Irrig a tio n state highway commission was
district.
The caravan w ill then composed of districts instead of
WÀSHINGTON, Oct.
retu rn to G rants P ass over the ( represented by three chmmls-
K clflo hIgSWaf. kniVTBf (B«n «loners named a i large.
vakla wlU t o ashed to »et­
In time for a banquet at 3:30
" I believe there Is too siuCh
tei her 8117,«7»,O88.7O w ar
».-to.
politics and too Uttlq buslaers
deft to the United Mates
In our present commission qy*-
tem of building highways,” M id
“ Par
better
reeults
ALL HANDS OF-FRENCH R ile y .
LINER ACCOUNTED FOR could be obtained, 1 th in k. I f the
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L «aatotoasantoox
state weref divided Into dls-
whose r Vdpresentatives
LBNDOar. Oat. 3— (U .; '.B O *- trietb,
T he captain And five mlaslng wdajd compose the highway com­
Also I would favor
members o t th e crew - of the mission.
French
m a 0 , steamer A ttala, tha allocation Of construction
landed a t Oorey, Jersey, today, funds hy dlstrloto Instead Of
frday to opta
after« eleven hoars In an open at large.
w l h th e Cao
"Sueh a system would give the
boat.
Tha rem ainder of the
di bt commlssloi
crew and tw o passengers pre­ ¡people o f the highway .districts
viously' touched aher«. rowidg a vktee hi the m atter of high­
three hoars through a
rook way. w erl*. which they do not
Baker — Assam from mineral
studded sen. A ll on hoard were h a te unde»’ (he present system.
th a t accounted to r, t o t a nnm- A>o thflre would he tor torn belt > r miles from here show
3105.58 par ton.
har of race borsea were dvbwned. politics.**
Çzecho-Slovakia
Next in Line for
Funding of Debt
Mlaa Ruth Car» Patton, pretty Kansas C ity debutante, took an
unusual method of ending her engagement to Samuel Inm an Cooper,
w ealthy A tlan ta architect. She published in the newspapers of two
cities an announcement .that the engagement was broken. I t v/ns
real newts to Cooper, who rushed to Kansu« C ity, but Miss Patton re­
fused to see him. She has given np reason for her action.
Oil, Gas Leases
to-be Supervised
in 3 Districts
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Smaghi
W A SH IN G TO N , Oct. 3 0
V—Ad ministration of oil 8
a r i gas leeee» on public 0
lands w in t o udder the • «
direct supervision of three 0
divisional engineers em- 0
powered with fu ll auth- 0
YREKA,
Oct,,
J— N orthern 0
C a lifo rn ia was stricken S atu rd ay 0
and Sunday w ith a v e rita b le 10
holocaust of automobile a c c i-I0
dents In which 11 persons w ero>0
killed and 10 were Injured. J 0
W ith in a period o ft lees than six 0
hours, two persons were killed 8
In crashes «ear Pollock, and 0
w ith in 100 feet of each e th e r, a l - 1 0
though each tragedy waa distinct. 0
T he accidents did not Include 8
a drowning a t Hornbrook and 8
a B a r t e r near Burney, bringing 8
th e total fa ta lity list to 13 per- 8
sons tn leas than 4 * hours. The 8
situation Is thought to he a 8
record tor aorthern California.
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T h e Dead
,
tt
Jack Lindsay of Chico.
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Mrs. Jack Lindsay of Chico.
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W a lte r Epperson, 9 2 * S y c a -8
more street. Chico.
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W U llam
L ak el,
*4,
tu u n e ta
w orker of Pollock, Shasta county.
Charles H . Crowe, 60, pnmp
man a t W inthrop, Shasta county.
John A. Derby of Dunsmuir,
captain of tra ffic
officers
tn
Siskiyou county.
Andrew James, miner or Buck­
eye, Shasta county.
.H a rv e y Donald Ensele 6f Mt.
Shasta, 8lsklyou, county.
Geraldine Carlson, 7, o f Bay
Point, Contra Costa county.
Mrs.
Ona
Manos,
34,
of Two
Marysville.
Antone Mnflch, 70, of Napa
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Senator Charles L. McNary of
Oregon Is ranking member of this
committee, and w ill be present
at this hearing.
For that rea­
son, It Is hoped t,hat as large a
delegation w ill be present at the
bearing as posatolo.
This committee was appointod
in response to a request made by
H . R. Saltmarsh, secretary of the
Crescent City chamber of com­
merce.
In addition to representing the
local chamber, McCoy w ill repre­
sent the State Bankers Association
of which he is president.
Former Ashland
Girl is Buried
in Medford
Crews W ill Start
Monday in Imnaha
The Injured
Mrs. May Couey, wife of Ed­
w ard Couey of Oroville, severe
cuts and fern lees.
E. J? Donaldson, Chico, frac­
tured . collarbone.
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Paul Norwood, Chico, eevore
scalp wound and lnoerated knee.
Thomas Copk, Chico, minor
fernlato.
Oscar
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Curtiss,
Chico,
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minor
Tea nt the 60 acres w ill lie
bruises.
Qns %ancey. Caatella, Shasta
county, facial bruises and lacer­
ated teg.
Gerald
Cornell,
Wlnahrop,
Shasta couaty, braises about
Mrs.
Belle Sprague. Baird,
Sbasto county, dislocated elbow
W illia m Bellm aa, tunnel work­
er nt Pollock, Shasta county,
cuts and toutsee.
K H a rry Pitto, tunnel worker
a t Pollock, cats and bruises.
Last
stretch
of
Roosevelt
Irving E. Vining of th ia city,
president of the Oregon State
chamber of commerce, and J. W .
McCoy and J. H. P uller, secretary
of the local chamber, bare been
appointed representatives of the
Iqcal chamber of commerce a t two
im portant conferences to be held
during the next week.
Vining waa appointed a special
representative of the local cham­
ber to attend the hearing of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
In Portland, relative to the ra il­
road controversy affecting East­
ern Oregon and K lam ath Palls.
A t thia conference, many of the
difficulties now facing the K la m ­
ath Palls section w ill be ironed
out, and In a ll probability, the
controversy w ill be definitely, bat­
tled.
Almost every chamber of com­
merce In Southern Oregon w ill
have a representative present nt
this hearing, In response to "A re ­
quest made by Lynn Sabin, aecre-
tary of the Klam ath chamber, at
the meeting
of secretaries
of
Southern Oregon chambers of
commerce, held here Monday
afternoon
McCoy and P uller w ill attend
the hearing of the rivers and har­
bors committee of Congress, at
Crescent C ity on October 7 and
t. A t this conference. It w ill
largely be determined wbetbur
the harbor at Cres$gnt City will
be completed, thus giving South­
ern Oregon an outlet to the sea,
ZOO m llg i closer than any pres­
ent outlet.
The Crescent City harbor has
been started, but about *1,000,-
000 additional money is needed
to complete the project. A t the
heating of the rivers and harbors
committee it w ill be determined
whether this expenditure by the
national government w ill be Just1-
planted hy W . J. Sproat near
Prospect in tha Imnoha district,
b iirn e * over by a 1000 acre « re
last ettotter. Lee P. Brown w ill
suporttaa tha planting of the
remaining 50 acras tn the Mos­
quito ew ntry near Mount Mc-
The S0feee, which are hut a
foot high, w ill be planted In
sq u afgu six feet apart and deep
enough tk give the roots«! good
anchorage.
Brown’s
planting
crew w ill include approximately
10 mao who w ill commence
work next Monday. Sproat w ill,
h ave leas.
Two months. It Is J
Highway ig . Curry County to expected, w ill he needed to com-i
piete th e w erk. ' •
bo contracted.
Elson of Medford.
Th«;y have
been in that city but n short
tim e,
qpmlng
from
Ashland,
where they lived for about two
years.
M artha was born in Aahgrove,
Mo., August 25. 1912, and was
13 years, one month and five
days old.
Five of her girl
friends acted as flower girl.«
WEEKS CONFERS WITH
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
Here are two pugilistic champs of
widely «operated divisions In other
words, meet Jack Dempsey, king of
the heavyweights and Fidel La Bar­
ba, flyweight crown-wearer. Jack's
shown doing a few stunts with Fidel
out In Loe Angeles, where both are
keeping In training.
slightly more than nine cents
per capita, probably the groall-
est fire loss of any city 'In the
state, the slxe of Ashland,
There Is some debate as to
what was the biggest « re hera.
and this question Is likely ,te
Conference Held With Noted cause considerable disc usalo«. -
As an interested party In the
Evangelist by Local
settlement of insurance. G. P.
People
Billings, veteran Insnranee agent
There is a possibility that of this olty, w ill be able to
B illy Sunday, noted evangelist, throw some light on the question.
w ill be in Ashland for a series Several others, who were w lt-
of meetings next summer, ac nesses to past conflagrations,
cordlng to Rev. J. C. Mergler, w ill be Invited to give their
pasor of the Presbyterian church, opinions on the question, ac­
who
returned
recently
from cording to P uller.
Portland, where he held a con
V. V. Mills, chairman o f the
ference with Sunday.
fofum committee, w ill preside
During the conference, Sunday at this meeting.
declared, he still remembered the
The forum luncheon w ill ha
wonderful
reception
accorded the first step in a fire prevention
him when he appeared in this campaign to be carried on here
cjty before, and that he be­ by. F ire Chief Baughman. In an
lieved It would be possible for effort to still fa rth e r redoes
hint to be here next June, if he the fire loeees In Ashland.
were w in ted.
During the past year. Baugh­
In speaking of the meetings man has made a rig id Inspec­
tion of all reported fire haaardv,
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and In many cases, ordered these
hasards removed. Thia via Ils nee
Is to be maintained, according
to the F ire Chief, a n tir every
tire trip end tire hasard has
boon removed.
Although the
fire trap and « re hasard hue
Is probably smaller than la any
city of thia stflh la the state.
Baughman bellevee It can to
still fu rth e r reduced.
An educntionnl eampelgn. In­
tended to reduce the haanrd of
«res due to defective flees
N EW LONDON, Oct. »— (V . w ill be started by the fire de­
P .l— The body of Paul Daniel partm ent, in preparation fo r tha
Burke, of Hhoeiuakervllle, Pa., w inter season.
was brought aboard the Camdon
early today. The same m ilitary
honors paid the other submarine
victims were accorded the body.
Salvage operations have been
Indefinitely
suspended
because
of heavy seas, and a ll ships ,eu-
gaged in these operations were
Lawrence GUI. yonag ran of
ordered into port, according to
a wireless dispatch from A dm iral Mr. and Mrs. W . D. G ill Of 355
H . H. Christy.
Christy said Scenic D rive, waa slightly In­
because of tha Increased winds jured yesterday afternoon, when
and heavy sens, diving opera­ he was struck by n track.
According to tha story told
tions had to be term inated.
It
Is impossible under preeent con­ tha police, Lawrence was riding
ditions. he said, for divers to go hla blcyela down an allay, whan
he Was h it.
According to the
down Into the sunken hull.
story. It was impossible for tha
Lawrence Gill is
Bruised When
Hit by Truck
track driver tn ml— the H y,—
Oregon and Washington
— P air, w ith
frosts In
tha east porttoa.
Light
P )— Another body waa taken
from the submarine 8-51, accord­
ing to a wireless report received
at a local station early today.
The body waa th a t of Engine-
man Burke, second etnas, which
was found la the engine room.
Burke’s home wan In Shoe­
makersville, Pa.
Taking th e ir lives in their
hands, «livers continued today
to search the 8-51 tor additional
bodies. They established beyond
a doubt th at th e h ull contained
no living man.
A a exploration
hole, bored Into tha tor^pdo
room. revealed th a t that section
was flooded, and established that
from s te 0 to stem , the e r a *
northerly - winde.
was «Usd ^ h
W A SH IN G TO N . Oct. 3— (U .
P .) — Secretary of W ar Weeks
arrived today far the first time
since he left here last June. ai*d
held a conference with President
Coolidge a t the W hite House at
luncheon.
Mrs Weeks accompanied the
secretary.
The conference gave
rise to the report that the .resig­
nation of the war secretary was
soon to be announced.
THE WEATHER
the history o f Aablan£TV < 7 fh a t
were the Intereatlag facto re­
garding thia f l r a f ' W h a t wpa
i|s effect upon Ashland Industry?
These are some of the queries
which w ill be made
at
the
chamber of commerce foram lun­
cheon next Tuesday, Secretary
J. H . P uller announced this
morning. The entire foram w ill
be given' over to a fire preven­
tion program, in line w ith th e
Fire Prevention W eek, which
is
being
nationally
observed
during the week. October 5 -lt.
Fire Chief Clinton J. Baugh­
man w ill make a apeclal report
concerning hja department and
its activities.
During the past
year, from January I , lfl'85, up
to the present time, th e « r e
loss in Ashland has been t o t
1516.
More than h a lt this to ­
tal. or a *3 9 0 loss was suffered
in the fire at the Fielding horns
early this summer.
The re­
mainder of the lose was suf­
fered due to small fires, none
of which amounted to over *4 0 .
Based on a population
of
6,000, the fire lose In Ashland
since January 1, has been but
wntor.
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Although N ightly hrutoed. Law­
rence was not severely k a rt, and
was out playing yesterday aftar-
aoon, akoqUy following the ac­
cident.
No bones were broken
tn the accident.